Before taking this class, I'd never heard the word inventory used to refer to a survey/test/self-assessment in the education world. I took both and realized how little I'm going to have in common with the fellow students who are teachers. But how much I can learn from them as well.
I observed a training class at work yesterday and heard a trainer say she'd heard a rule of thumb in adult education is that an engaging activity is needed at minimum every 77 minutes. I thought that sounded funny as I'd heard in the past that adults in the business world typically can maintain focus for 20 minutes. I'm interested to hear all the discreptancies I'm going to observe throughout this course between what I've been taught in business about presentation skills and what I learn about proper adult learning strategies and theory.
Was glad we took class time to spend a few minutes individually thinking up answers to the prod questions for the Teaching Philosophy Statement. I've been in management training classes @ work that suggest mangers need to come up with a Management Philosophy Statement or a Leadership statement... all very similar, but I'm expecting the Teaching to be much more student centered. I'll be interested to see the others in class. and to develop one for myself. to discover what it is I feel.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
1st class response
I'm thrilled to be taking this course - my first adult education course in over 10 years, and my 3rd overall I believe. My impressions of our first class were excitement and comfort. I liked how engaged the students were. I'm excited to learn from this professor and while it sounds corney, to have a deeper meaning to what I'll be doing. Not just learning business stuff, but how to help others.
As I have been in the business courses I've taken over the last few years towards my MBA, I'm very interested and excited to learn new things. Things is too broad, but it covers all I'm referring to. The idea that an educator's responsibility is to be critically reflective, to know how to deliver material that will be received, to plan ahead for presentation, to plan how to assess: Everything in the classroom shoudl have an objective. Everything needs an appropriate instructional assessment metric.
I'm excited to develop my understanding of how to plan & teach adults. I'd like to see where it can take me in a career. I've long been feeling some emptiness in my marketinging jobs and wanting to turn my job duties into something that's more fulfilling.
As I have been in the business courses I've taken over the last few years towards my MBA, I'm very interested and excited to learn new things. Things is too broad, but it covers all I'm referring to. The idea that an educator's responsibility is to be critically reflective, to know how to deliver material that will be received, to plan ahead for presentation, to plan how to assess: Everything in the classroom shoudl have an objective. Everything needs an appropriate instructional assessment metric.
I'm excited to develop my understanding of how to plan & teach adults. I'd like to see where it can take me in a career. I've long been feeling some emptiness in my marketinging jobs and wanting to turn my job duties into something that's more fulfilling.
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